Title:
Each Greater than the Sum of its Parts: Custom Aggregations of Fedora Digital Objects

dc.contributor.author Nugent, Jason en_US
dc.contributor.author Whitney, Jennifer en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename University of New Brunswick. Electronic Text Centre en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-06-11T20:50:50Z
dc.date.available 2009-06-11T20:50:50Z
dc.date.issued 2009-05 en_US
dc.description 4th International Conference on Open Repositories en_US
dc.description This presentation was part of the session : Conference Posters en_US
dc.description.abstract Search and browse tools in digital repository applications provide a simple, intuitive interface for locating objects housed in a repository. Once found, however, the applications offer little native support for users to organize the objects into custom views of repository content. This project seeks to offer personalized views of repository content with a service for users to select, annotate, combine, and re-distribute objects housed in a Fedora digital repository. We offer repository users the ability to combine objects in a personally meaningful way. Our service, combined with a content management system (CMS), provides an interface layer for selecting and ordering Fedora objects into a custom aggregation. Users may choose to add context to their selections with supplemental information for individual objects or the entire grouping. This service is intended to support short-term aggregations useful enough to warrant persistent storage, but insufficiently so to require preservation in the repository as a separate object. For example, an instructor may want to assemble from the repository a series of readings for use in the classroom, repackaged for distribution in a convenient format. Persistent storage is supported with personal web spaces in the CMS. Fedora 3 local services (e.g., the Saxon XSLT processor, Apache FOP formatter, etc.) are used to distill the aggregation into a single digital object, in common file formats, that can then be distributed from public views of CMS web spaces. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/28428
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries OR09. Conference Posters en_US
dc.subject Fedora en_US
dc.subject Content management systems en_US
dc.subject Digital repositories en_US
dc.title Each Greater than the Sum of its Parts: Custom Aggregations of Fedora Digital Objects en_US
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